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Hioki City
Kagoshima Prefecture · City
Official websiteKagoshima Prefecture page
Hioki City is in the central west of the Satsuma Peninsula, where Fukiagehama, one of Japan's three great sand dunes, stretches along the coast. Every year, people walk in armor to Tokushige Shrine, which enshrines Shimazu Yoshihiro, in the "Myoenji Mairi" procession. The Miyama district is known as a village of Satsuma ware pottery kilns.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Places to visit
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Kagoshima Prefecture
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